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=== Contact Information  ===
=== Contact Information  ===


'''E-mail:'''<ref name="Locatio">Allen County Public Library, "Locations" at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/locations/index.html (accessed 9 February 2010).</ref> &nbsp;[mailto:ask@acpl.info ask@acpl.info] <br>
'''E-mail:'''<ref name="Locatio">Allen County Public Library, "Locations" at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/locations/index.html (accessed 9 February 2010).</ref> &nbsp;[mailto:ask@acpl.info ask@acpl.info] <br>  


'''Website:''' http://www.acpl.lib.in.us
'''Website:''' http://www.acpl.lib.in.us  


'''Address:'''<ref name="Locatio" /> <br>
'''Address:'''<ref name="Locatio" /> <br>  


:900 Library Plaza <br>
:900 Library Plaza <br>  
:Fort Wayne,&nbsp;IN 46802 <br>
:Fort Wayne,&nbsp;IN 46802 <br>


'''Telephone:'''<ref name="Locatio" /> &nbsp;260-421-1200<br>
'''Telephone:'''<ref name="Locatio" /> &nbsp;260-421-1200<br>  


'''Hours:'''  
'''Hours:'''  


*Mon, Tue, Wed, Thur: 9am-9pm; Friday, Saturday: 9am-6pm; Sunday*: 12NOON-5pm <br>
*Mon, Tue, Wed, Thur: 9am-9pm; Friday, Saturday: 9am-6pm; Sunday*: 12NOON-5pm <br>  
*For holiday schedule, [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/hours/index.html click here]. <br>
*For holiday schedule, [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/hours/index.html click here]. <br>


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'''Directions and&nbsp;public parking map:'''<ref name="Locatio" />  
'''Directions and&nbsp;public parking map:'''<ref name="Locatio" />  


*[http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q=900%20webster%20street%2C%20fort%20wayne%2C%20in%2046802 Directions (Google map)] <br>
*[http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q=900%20webster%20street%2C%20fort%20wayne%2C%20in%2046802 Directions (Google map)] <br>  
*[http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/virtualtour/AcplFirstFloorPrint.pdf Parking map] <br>
*[http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/virtualtour/AcplFirstFloorPrint.pdf Parking map] <br>


'''Internet sites and databases:''' <br>
'''Internet sites and databases:''' <br>  


*Allen County Public Library Internet Site at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/index.html <br>
*Allen County Public Library Internet Site at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/index.html <br>  
*ACPL Catalog Online at http://webcat.acpl.lib.in.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/X7hKi6e8a0/MAIN/32520467/60/1180/X <br>
*ACPL Catalog Online at http://webcat.acpl.lib.in.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/X7hKi6e8a0/MAIN/32520467/60/1180/X <br>  
*ACPL Genealogy Center at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/index.html <br>
*ACPL Genealogy Center at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/index.html  
*ACPL Genealogy Center Tour on You-Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcqDqc0SXgo


=== Collection Description  ===
=== Collection Description  ===


The Fred J. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection is the second-largest genealogy collection in the United States<ref>"Allen County Public Library" in ''Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_County_Public_Library (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> with more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microform.<ref>"Genealogy Center" in ''Allen County Public Library'' at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> Users in Fort Wayne also have access, for a small fee, to over 2 million additional microfilms from the [[Family History Library]] in Salt Lake City. ACPL is the creator of the [[Periodical_Source_Index_(PERSI)|Periodical Source Index (PERSI)]] based on their premier collection of French-Canadian and English-language genealogical and local history periodicals (5,100 current subscriptions).<br>
The Fred J. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection is the second-largest genealogy collection in the United States<ref>"Allen County Public Library" in ''Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_County_Public_Library (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> with more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microform.<ref>"Genealogy Center" in ''Allen County Public Library'' at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ (accessed 28 April 2010).</ref> Users in Fort Wayne also have access, for a small fee, to over 2 million additional microfilms from the [[Family History Library]] in Salt Lake City. ACPL is the creator of the [[Periodical Source Index (PERSI)|Periodical Source Index (PERSI)]] based on their premier collection of French-Canadian and English-language genealogical and local history periodicals (5,100 current subscriptions).<br>  


Major online databases at ACPL include: Ancestry.com{{·}} African American Heritage{{·}} Footnote.com{{·}} HeritageQuestOnline.com{{·}} Historical Detroit Free Press{{·}} NewEnglandAncestors.org{{·}} Origins Network-British, Irish, and Scots{{·}} Paper of Record-Historical Newspapers{{·}} WorldVitalRecords.com.  
Major online databases at ACPL include: Ancestry.com{{·}} African American Heritage{{·}} Footnote.com{{·}} HeritageQuestOnline.com{{·}} Historical Detroit Free Press{{·}} NewEnglandAncestors.org{{·}} Origins Network-British, Irish, and Scots{{·}} Paper of Record-Historical Newspapers{{·}} WorldVitalRecords.com.  


ACPL has over 50,000 family histories, all federal, and many state and territorial censuses, city directories, passenger lists, military records, nearly 200,000 local histories, the Boston Transcript, colonial newspapers of VA, MD, and PA, native American, African American, Canadian, British, and German collections. For more details see [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ Genealogy Center] and the [http://webcat.acpl.lib.in.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/fwfMIpEDQw/MAIN/820466/60/1180/X ACPL catalog].<br>
ACPL has over 50,000 family histories, all federal, and many state and territorial censuses, city directories, passenger lists, military records, nearly 200,000 local histories, the Boston Transcript, colonial newspapers of VA, MD, and PA, native American, African American, Canadian, British, and German collections. For more details see [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ Genealogy Center] and the [http://webcat.acpl.lib.in.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/fwfMIpEDQw/MAIN/820466/60/1180/X ACPL catalog].<br>  


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